From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
Cc: 53661@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#53661: 29.0.50; electric-pair-mode not respecting electric-pair-inhibit-predicate.
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 21:28:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837daf9021.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220131192001.ckn3dedbz3qzix3o@Ergus> (message from Ergus on Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:20:01 +0100)
> Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 20:20:01 +0100
> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> Cc: 53661@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> I wanted to add "<>" so I added to my init:
> >>
> >> (add-to-list 'electric-pair-pairs '(?< . ?>))
> >
> >And it didn't work because of the hard-coded syntaxes?
> >
> Adding to the list worked correctly, What didn't work was to use the
> electric-pair-inhibit-predicate that was never called, so a < always
> inserted a >.
>
> >What is the syntax of ?< in the mode where you wanted to add that?
>
> It is just c++-mode.
And that is your problem, I believe: <> in C++ aren't treated as
parentheses or string delimiters, so their syntax doesn't fit what
electric-pair-mode assumes.
IOW, you need a different, C++ specific feature. (I'd be surprised if
none already existed, btw.)
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